Neymar’s ankle keeps Brazil anxious: decisive hours

Neymar’s ankle keeps Brazil anxious

Neymar’s ankle injury is keeping an entire nation anxious. Brazil’s No. 10 exited early in the match against Serbia after an intervention by Milenkovic caused him to sprain his ankle with edema. The injury will be evaluated more carefully, but the risk is high that the striker will miss some World Cup matches.

“He suffered a sprain,” social doctor Rodrigo Lasmar said after the game. “We have not yet had time to make a more complete evaluation. It’s important to wait the first 24 hours, see how he will react. Now, it’s just a matter of calm and a little patience. Is he out of the Cup? It’s too early to say. Let’s see how it will go in the first few hours to define how the evolution will be. He went to contest a ball, the opponent countered him by applying pressure and the ankle turned.”